Definition of Eliminate

1. [v -NATED, -NATING, -NATES]

Medical Definition of Eliminate

1.
1. To put out of doors; to expel; to discharge; to release; to set at liberty. "Eliminate my spirit, give it range Through provinces of thought yet unexplored." (Young)
2. To cause to disappear from an equation; as, to eliminate an unknown quantity.
3. To set aside as unimportant in a process of inductive inquiry; to leave out of consideration. "Eliminate errors that have been gathering and accumulating." (Lowth)
4. To obtain by separating, as from foreign matters; to deduce; as, to eliminate an idea or a conclusion.
5. To separate; to expel from the system; to excrete; as, the kidneys eliminate urea, the lungs carbonic acid; to eliminate poison from the system.
Origin: L. Eliminatus, p. P. Of eliminare; e out + limen threshold; prob. Akin to limes boundary. See Limit.
Source: Websters Dictionary
(01 Mar 1998)

Eliminate Pictures

Click the following link to bring up a new window with an automated collection of images related to the term: Eliminate Images

2.Maintaining Budgetary Discipline: Spending and Revenue Options edited by Sherry Snyder (1999)"... and require RUS borrowers to use private sources of capital for all of their
loan needs, or continue a federal loan program but eliminate subsidies. ..."

3.Homerica, Emendations and Elucidations of the Odyssey by Thomas Leyden Agar (1908)"... or ; later Greeks seem never to have been content to г to use the nominative
for the vocative, and dis- .nsion freely in order to eliminate the supposed ..."

4.Aeroplanes by James Slough Zerbe (1915)"THE EARLY TENDENCY TO eliminate MOMENTUM.—Builders of flying machines, for several
years, sought to eliminate the very thing which gives energy to a ..."